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A HIDDEN JOURNEY

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During a time of pain and unrest, in May 2020 I began to wander around the many cemeteries and parks of Rome, Italy, the city where I now live and a place of subtle complexity and mystery. 

Those surroundings somehow dragged me in, pushing me to relentlessly look for things I actually didn’t even know myself. At first I was simply driven by my feelings of deep compassion and inner freedom. Then after a few months I started to sense a connection between a handful of those places. They were the ones where I could feel a sort of multilayered atmosphere in which I completely immersed myself: a dimension of time and space where plants, animals, objects and their relationship with each other silently revealed themselves as the traces of a hidden journey, of a walk through the night beyond death, darkness and decay to go back to what we all belong.

Parco della Caffarella public park, Rome, Italy
Laghetto dell'EUR public park, Rome, Italy
Parco degli Acquedotti public park, Rome, Italy
Villa Borghese public park, Rome, Italy
Cimitero del Verano monumental cemetery, Rome, Italy
Cimitero del Verano monumental cemetery, Rome, Italy
Parco degli Acquedotti public park, Rome, Italy
Cimitero del Verano monumental cemetery, Rome, Italy
Cimitero del Verano monumental cemetery, Rome, Italy
Parco della Caffarella public park, Rome, Italy
Parco degli Acquedotti public park, Rome, Italy
Cimitero del Verano monumental cemetery, Rome, Italy
Cimitero del Verano monumental cemetery, Rome, Italy
Parco dell'Appia Antica public park, Rome, Italy
Villa Torlonia public park, Rome, Italy
Parco degli Acquedotti public park, Rome, Italy

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